They call me Mouse Boy!' Ryan Gosling reveals his forgotten nickname in vintage Mouseketeer interview

It is a name he surely thought he had left behind now he is one of the hottest stars of the silver screen.
But Ryan Gosling's old Mouse Boy moniker could be set to make a comeback after an old interview from when he became a Mouseketeer was dug out of the vaults.
The then 12-year-old's chat with Canada AM was unearthed as part of the celebration's of the breakfast show's 40th anniversary.
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Mouse Boy: Ryan Gosling could see his old nickname make a comeback after this hilarious vintage interview was unearthed as part of Canada AM's anniversary celebration

When asked about the reaction from his peers about his exotic new job he made the hilarious admission.
He said: 'My friends are really great about it, they think its really cool, they're really excited.
They call me mouse boy and things. They're all happy for me.'
And he insisted noone was making fun of him because of his new job, despite his ridiculous new nickname.
He said: 'They're really good about it, I'm surprised. I thought I'd get a lot of stuff.'
According to the interview, he beat off 15,000 other young actors to win the honour of being Canada's only Mouseketeer.

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And he said his whole family was over the moon when they were given the news.
He said: 'I hit the roof. It was so fun. My mother and I, we were just like jumping around and my sister. It was amazing.'
And the fancy Dan youngster could not help but boast about how much he enjoyed working for his new employers.
He said: 'The people of Disney are so incredibly amazing they are so nice. They treated us like we were kings and queens.

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'Like we came from just our houses where we had to do our own stuff and they did so much stuff for us it was just so neat.'
The Ides of March actor also lifted the lid on the arduous audition process he went through to win the role.
He said: 'We had to sing, dance and act and they gave us a script to learn, two songs to learn and they gave me an interlude and taught us how to dance when we were down there.'
And while he is best known today for his acting abilities, he did not even list a single thespian among thiose he would liek to meet on the show.
He said: 'If I could I wanna meet Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson. That'd be cool.'

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